Dress-shield



- (No Model.')

BEE SUTTON.

- DRESS SHIELD. No. 561,067. Patented May 26, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN F. SUTTON, OF BROOKLYN, NEYV YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT ANDMESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE PARKER, STEARNS & SUTTON, OF

NEWV YORK.

DRESS-SHIELD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 561,067, dated May 26,1896.

Application filed May 22, 1895. Serial No. 550,182. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. SUTTON, of the city of Brooklyn, in thecounty of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Dress- Shields, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to what are commonly known as dress-shields,consisting of a waterproof material for incorporation into thoseportions of dresses which come under the armpits. The object is toprovide such a shield which will not only be self-ventilating, but willserve to ventilate the clothing; and to this end my invention consistsin a shield which is corrugated in such form as to constitute a seriesof channels which will be alternately collapsed and dilated by themovements of the wearer in such manner as to produce an activecirculation of air through them.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side view of a shield constructedaccording to my invention, one corner of the shield being represented asturned over to show the corrugations in the inner faces of the twoleaves of the shield. Fig. 2 is a view of the lower edge of the same.

The shield may be of the shape generally adopted for such shields, andmay be made of soft india-rubber, vulcanized or properly cured, or ofany suitablefabric which is pliable or flexible in all directions andcoated with rubber to render it proof against perspiration. Thecorrugations a, which constitute the distinguishing feature of myinvention, might run in various directions, but I prefer generally thatthey should run upward and downward, as shown in Fig. 1, as running inthat direction they will provide efficiently for the circulation of airover the inner and outer surfaces of the shield in such manner as toafford perfect ventilation to the adjacent portions of the dress.

In a dress provided with such a corrugated shield the slightest movementof the arms and even slight movements of the body cannot fail, by thevariation in the pressure on different parts of the shield, to producerepeated collapsion and dilation of some or others of the air-channelsa. In being thus collapsed the channels will have the air expelled fromthem, and in the dilation of said channels, consequent upon therelaxation of pressure, air will be again drawn into them. In this waythe circulation of air over the shield and within the surroundingportions of the dress will be unfailable.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A dress-shield of pliable and flexible material corrugated to form inconnection with the dress and body of the wearer when in use a series ofcollapsible and dilatable tubular channels, substantially as hereindescribed.

BENJAMIN F. SUTTON.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, GEORGE BARRY.

